How molecular motors work in the crowded environment of living cells: coexistence and efficiency of normal and anomalous transport. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Recent experiments reveal both passive subdiffusion of various nanoparticles and anomalous active transport of such particles by molecular motors in the molecularly crowded environment of living biological cells.
Igor Goychuk +2 more
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Artificial molecular motors in biological applications [PDF]
Frontiers in Molecular BiosciencesMolecular motors are the cornerstone for the maintenance of living systems and mediate almost all fundamental processes involved in cellular trafficking.
Fuli Fan +4 more
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Nuclear deformation by microtubule molecular motors. [PDF]
PLoS Computational BiologyWe present a model to calculate the displacement and extension of deformable cellular cargo pulled by molecular motors stepping along cytoskeletal filaments.
Naruemon Rueangkham +3 more
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Active Microphase Separation in Mixtures of Microtubules and Tip-Accumulating Molecular Motors [PDF]
Physical Review X, 2022 Mixtures of filaments and molecular motors form active materials with diverse dynamical behaviors that vary based on their constituents’ molecular properties.
Bezia Lemma +4 more
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Photoactivated Artificial Molecular Motors. [PDF]
JACS Au, 2023 Accurate control of long-range motion at the molecular scale holds great potential for the development of ground-breaking applications in energy storage and bionanotechnology. The past decade has seen tremendous development in this area, with a focus on the directional operation away from thermal equilibrium, giving rise to tailored man-made molecular ...
Corra S, Curcio M, Credi A.
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Photo-responsive functional materials based on light-driven molecular motors [PDF]
Light: Science & ApplicationsIn the past two decades, the research and development of light-triggered molecular machines have mainly focused on developing molecular devices at the nanoscale.
Yanping Deng +6 more
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All-visible-light-driven salicylidene schiff-base-functionalized artificial molecular motors [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsLight-driven rotary molecular motors are among the most promising classes of responsive molecular machines and take advantage of their intrinsic chirality which governs unidirectional rotation.
Sven van Vliet +3 more
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Traffic of Molecular Motors [PDF]
, 2007 10 pages, latex, uses Springer styles (included), to appear in the Proceedings of "Traffic and Granular Flow 2005"
Klumpp, S., Müller, M., Lipowsky, R.
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The classification and therapeutic applications of molecular motors
European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry Reports, 2021 The molecular motors are protein molecules which can be teamed up to form the active mobile nanomachine with special functions. As a new type of therapeutic target different from normal enzymes or receptors, molecular motor plays a unique role in the ...
Mingyuan Li +10 more
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A new perspective on microtubule dynamics: destruction by molecular motors and self-repair
Comptes Rendus Biologies, 2021 Microtubules are dynamic polymers, permanently assembling and disassembling, that serve as tracks for intra-cellular transport by molecular motors. We recently found that the low energy of tubulin dimer interactions allows for spontaneous loss of tubulin
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